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The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the US has died, a Dallas hospital confirms. Thomas Eric Duncan, who has been kept in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital since Sept. 28, died at 7:51am, per a Facebook post made with "profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment" by the hospital. It reads in part, "Mr. Duncan succumbed to an insidious disease, Ebola. He fought courageously in this battle." The 42-year-old had been on experimental drug brincidofovir and receiving dialysis, at a cost of roughly $1,000 an hour. Officials say 10 people had direct contact with him while he was contagious.

The New York Times notes that Duncan returned to Dallas to be with the woman he spent almost two decades apart from, Louise Troh. The two had a son together, and Duncan's pastor earlier said the couple planned to marry. She is currently quarantined in a home on "remote property." In the Times' telling, a "simple act of kindness" may have been Duncan's downfall: He helped take his landlord's 19-year-old daughter to and from the hospital; she later died. News of his death broke shortly after another Ebola-related announcement: The Homeland Security Department has ordered agents at airports and other ports of entry to observe everyone coming into the United States for potential signs of Ebola infection. DHS did not elaborate on how agents would observe people or say when the new measures would begin.

Duncan didn't think much of the people he infected by sneaking into the U. S. through lies about his associates in Lyberia who died of Ebola, and possibly infecting the people in Dallas that he shacked up with. One of the prosessional racemongers has already claimed he was turned away from a hospital because he was an "African-American" though he was an African-African.

Chuck Roast

Oct 9, 2014 5:52 AM CDT

Start checking passports for flight origination and quarantine those who flew from contaminated areas . Also ban flights from contaminated areas. Deport those who knowing flew from the banned areas.